Overview

This article provides all the information you may want to know about "access domains". An access domain is a unique hostname that is assigned to a particular service. It will always resolve to your service, regardless of whether any other domains have DNS pointing to the service. This makes it very useful for various preview and connection functions.

This article provides all the information you may want to know about "access domains". An access domain is a unique hostname that is assigned to a particular service.

Each Grid comes with a "web access domain" as well as an "email access domain".

Each WordPress Hosting site comes with a "web access domain". If you have Media Temple hosted email, the service will also have a separate "email access domain". If you are using Google Apps for Work, you will not have an email access domain provided by (mt) Media Temple.

The web access domain will look like this:

s00000.gridserver.com

s stands for "site."

00000 stands for your site number. This will be a unique number assigned to your account and server.

gridserver.com is the parent domain of the Grid.

The email access domain is completely independent of the web access domain and will look something like this:

xxxx-xxxx.accessdomain.com

xxxx-xxxx will be a series of randomized letters. This will be totally unique to your specific Grid.

Our new mail service uses "accessdomain.com" as its parent domain.

The web access domain will look like this:

xxx.xxx.myftpupload.com

The xxx.xxx portion will be a series of alphanumeric characters. This will be totally unique to your specific WordPress Hosting service.

If you have (mt) Media Temple hosted mail and are not using Google Apps for Work, your email access domain will look something like this:

xxxx-xxxx.accessdomain.com

xxxx-xxxx will be a series of alphanumeric characters. This access domain will be totally unique to your specific WordPress Hosting service.

Find my access domain

You can view your access domain in the Server Guide. Click on your primary domain, then on View Your Guide.

Your access domain is listed in the Server Info section:

You can use your access domain for SSH:

ssh username@ve.4iU3hd92.vesrv.com

You can also use it for FTP, as a domain on your server, for email testing, et cetra.

Previewing your site

Your web access domain works as a preview for your primary domain. Just type http://s00000.gridserver.com in your favorite browser, and you'll see what you've uploaded so far! (Remember to replace 00000 with your personal site number.)

You can also use it for alternate domains - for example, alternate.com. In this case, you'll add the alternate domain name to the beginning of the URL, like this:

http://alternate.com.s00000.gridserver.com

This is a great way to preview your site before you've pointed your domain to (mt) Media Temple.